Political Quotes

“Mr. President, this evening President Biden will deliver his first address to Congress. I have been asked, I think as most Members have, by the media: What do you expect to hear? What do you want to hear? Honestly, I am interested to hear the direction the President will set in his speech. The President's inaugural address leaned heavily into the theme of unity and bipartisanship, but unity and bipartisanship have not been a distinguishing feature of the Biden Presidency. The President's first major bill, a COVID relief bill, broke the streak of bipartisanship on COVID legislation--a streak that goes back to March of last year. Since that time, when we were the majority, we passed five bills, all of them with big bipartisan majorities. Under President Biden, Democrats shoved through a totally partisan bill filled with non-COVID-related liberal priorities. Republicans were more than ready to work with Democrats on additional coronavirus legislation. In fact, 10 Republicans developed a COVID proposal and then met with President Biden to discuss it. But Democrats and the President were having none of it. It was ``their way or the highway'' on COVID legislation. No bipartisanship. No compromise. It was, support the Democrats' bill and its wasteful spending on non- COVID-related priorities or be left out of the discussion. As I pointed out, only about 10 percent--10 percent--of that ``COVID bill'' was actually COVID related.…”